Re: Right Way to make a configuration package

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Enrico Zini]
> One of the suggestions that came out is using dpkg diversions.
> 
> I remember diversions came out in the past, and I don't remember how
> come they didn't come out again.  Was there something wrong with them?

I believe they are forbidden or don't work for conffiles.  And we need
to do this with conffiles.

I suspect the only sensible way to do this is to implement multilevel
configuration files in all applications we want to configure at
install time.